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Hurray! The Government’s here!
Rants Tryin' to reason with hurricane season You Are Your Own First Responder

Hurray! The Government’s here!

Bear in mind that title should be read as caustic sarcasm. I’ve been listening, probably rather obsessively, to the W4HTP ham radio repeater via a…

October 1, 2024October 1, 2024
This just how fast it can all go sideways
Guns Situational Awareness You Are Your Own First Responder

This just how fast it can all go sideways

This is why we’re told to game these things out ahead of time-you don’t have time to think when it happens. Sorry about the video…

March 9, 2021March 11, 2021
The self-defense world is going to change
Guns Rut-ro Raggy Situational Awareness You Are Your Own First Responder

The self-defense world is going to change

“Judge Floyd said awarding qualified immunity would allow police to be protected over ‘fear-based use of deadly force, which we cannot accept.’ “ (Emphasis mine) With…

June 10, 2020February 15, 2021
Get Off Your Butt and Train Guns Prepping Self Defense You Are Your Own First Responder

A wake up call if I ever saw one

(Via Open Source Defense) Obviously this isn’t news. We’ve all heard about the church shooting in White Settlement, TX by now. Knowing my audience, I’m…

January 2, 2020February 15, 2021
Prepping You Are Your Own First Responder

Are you OK? Are you alright? HELP, MEDIC!

Aesop at the Raconteur Report has put up what I believe will be the most important thing I’ve read this month-medical kit advice from someone…

November 27, 2018February 15, 2021
Get Off Your Butt and Train Guns You Are Your Own First Responder

Central Nervous System stop

(Via Gab) Could you deliver a head shot, cold, under maximum stress, on demand? A Texas husband could and did. There is a reasonable chance…

July 24, 2018February 15, 2021
Guns Things That Put A Smile On Your Face You Are Your Own First Responder

Reason #4,237 why we go armed in public

(Via the Drudge Report) 18-year-old wants-to-be-famous bad guy walks into a restaurant and shoots a mom and her daughter who are celebrating a birthday. On…

May 25, 2018February 15, 2021
Guns You Are Your Own First Responder

But why would a business owner need to carry a gun?

When you’re a part of a group that is being targeted for robbery and murder, it’s an entirely reasonable reaction. Chinese-American business owners in the…

May 9, 2018February 15, 2021
Guns Modern Life Skills Things That Put A Smile On Your Face You Are Your Own First Responder

This is one of those 2.5 million defensive gun uses the CDC couldn’t be bothered to release to the public

(Via The Woodpile Report) It’s also an answer to the questions “Why I need an AR-15”, “Why I need standard capacity magazines” and “Why I…

April 25, 2018February 15, 2021

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